Show TOBACCO IN FAR OFF ALA ALASKA resources of miners when they can neither smoke nor chew 1 I 1 can mate match it the ho story you were telling of the cracker women in north N orth carolina who use snuff by spread spreading inZ it over the gums with n cb chead chea ew d stick fald the man from alaska to the southerner next him by telling how miners end and soldiers Eold lers in alaska tle tie tobacco in the arn pits or agal against nt s I 1 h of r solar plexus in place of taking it as a smoke or chow when the the wind la Is blowing 3 30 miles an hour anti and the temperature Is 40 below it Is some cold as they say out west 1 if I a man used tobacco in the ordinary way out ot of doors during such weather and sot got his lips wet through smoking a pipe or chewing he would be apt to get into trouble first thing he be knew hed have his lips cracked and they would be raw all winter lung the regulars stationed at the military posts up in alaska found that if K they tied a tobacco leaf to in their armpit in previous evious to undesired duty they would I 1 become acome very sick and could pass the post poet surgeon lor for hospital getting tin rid of detal work they wanted to avoid the miners up there learned something ng of 0 this and found that the tobacco craving could bs be satisfied by binding a quantity ot of the leat leaf either cither in the arm armpit dit or against the solar plexus this avoided broken and bleeding lip 4 fearing the ho winter and they prevented from smoking indoors as well it if they wanted to it was the outdoor smoking y chewing that made all the trouble no I 1 tried it said the alaska man but I 1 no aci know that the habl habit is very common up north to in the long arctic winter among men who spend their lives in the open it la Is the queerest way to use tobacco I 1 know of 0 |